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1. Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen after death.
2. Marco Polo discovered pasta in China and brought it back to Italy.
3. Some mammals actually lay eggs instead of giving birth in the usual manner of most mammals.
4. S.O.S. stands for "Save our Ship".
5. Key West is the westernmost Florida key.
6. In the book of "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy wears silver shoes.
7. Bulls will only charge at the color red.
8. Dracula was based on a real person.
9. "Frankenstein" was a monster made by a mad scientist.
10. One would think the water in the Panama Canal would be salt but it's not. It's fresh.
11. John F. Kennedy was the youngest President of the United States.
12. William Shakespeare wrote in "Hamlet" (Act 5, Scene 1), "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him well."
13. Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon were all impeached.
14. Icebergs are composed of frozen sea water.
15. Witches were never burned at the stake in Salem, Mass.
16. Stonehenge, the ancient stone monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England was built by Druids.
17. Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born in a log cabin.
18. The fabric denim, used to make dungarees, was developed in Dungri, a surburb of Bombay, India as well as in France both in about the seventeenth century.
19. The British government owns Queen Elizabeth II's residence, Buckingham Palace.
20. The entrance into San Francisco Bay is named the Golden Gate because it was the gateway to the gold fields.
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